First, thank you to ACPE’s members and students for the privilege of serving alongside you as colleagues in the discipline of Spiritual Care and Education. To the ACPE Board of Directors, thank you for your wisdom, tenacity, and commitment to our association. You have been thoughtful, diligent, and courageous leaders. To the ACPE Staff, thank you for your professional expertise, patience, longsuffering, and dedication to our association. |
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In January 2020 the new ACPE Accreditation Manual began with new Standards and the requirement of each center to establish and maintain a portfolio. The portfolio is the structure for the relational way accredited centers and the Accreditation Commission communicate for the review process. The structure and strong communication is a key part of how accreditation supports centers in the strengthening of education. Instead of accreditation being a hoop to jump through, the relational accountability of accreditation helps certified educators as a resource for the work of being an educator and in the management of an accredited ACPE center. As stated in the manual, a primary reason for the work of the accreditation commission is the “continuous alignment and improvement of a center’s work, toward what is best in the education of students.”
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Centers in Year 6 of the Accreditation Cycle: Site Visit – ACPE Certified Educators will work with the Accreditation Commissioner of their cohort and the appointed National Site Team Chair (NSTC) to establish dates for the visit. Site visits scheduled through June will be virtual, and assuming travel restrictions due to the pandemic are lifted, site visits scheduled between July and October will be in-person. Portfolios will need to be ready for review 60 days prior to the scheduled site visit. Please see the Accreditation Manual for the 6 Year Site Visit Plan that has been updated (for clarification) for 2022.
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Once a month the ACPE Professional Ethics Commission (PEC) posts a couple of statements from our Code of Professional Ethics for ACPE Members. Each posting is accompanied by a brief personal reflection from a member of the PEC discussing some ways this person lives these commitments*.
For December, Rev. Karl Van Harn, ACPE Certified Educator from Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan highlights a resource for professional ethics education developed by the PEC for Certified Educator training. The PEC highly recommends that all ACPE Certified Educators view this video for their ethical self-awareness, self-reflection, and supervisory practice. The video is about 42 minutes long and, at the end, includes a list of other ethics education resources.
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ACPE and APC invite you to support our efforts to provide this critical and dynamic educational program for our professionals in spiritual care. Your support will help us to bring the dream of healing this hurting world into reality, so that together we may create a better future for all. |
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2022 Membership Invoices were sent via email the week of 12/01/2021. Please check your spam/junk folder to make sure that you have received it after that date. If you did not receive an invoice by 12/05/2021, please contact us at accounting@acpe.edu. Please also contact us if you would like to change the billing email address.
Exciting news: You are now able to print a PDF of your invoice directly from the email! To print a PDF, look for the text: To view this invoice as a PDF, click here located under the Due Date of the Invoice. Click the link and enjoy this new feature!
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Thank you to all who gave to ACPE's 2021 Giving Tuesday campaign! The total raised was $12,079 from 85 donors! A special thanks to Thorne Consulting for their matching gift to help us encourage new donors to give.
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The 2022 conference theme, “Freedom, Wonder, and Liberation: Anti-Bias Practices of Spiritual Care and Education” invites the engagement of all our organizational members by facing the urgency of this moment. We need the collective wisdom of our chaplains, our educators, and our psychotherapists as we continue to face the interlocking pandemics of bias, injustice, and COVID-19.
The new deadline to submit proposals is December 8, 2021.
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Do you sing or play an instrument that you would consider sharing during our centering time, multi-faith, and memorial service events? The 2022 Joint Annual Conference Spiritual Needs Committee is seeking talent within our organizations. If you are interested please fill out the short contact form so we can reach out to you.
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Hopefully, you noticed a reference in Monday’s “This Week” about the Board of Director’s approval of an envisioned association “self-study,” similar to what many of you have experienced in your institutions.
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The Anti-Bias Work Group has convened several groups to better understand the variety of biases within our organization and the work of spiritual care and education. The Ableism group is interested in talking with ACPE Educators and Psychotherapists who identify as having some form of disability about the ways that disability, and attitudes from others about it have impacted your pastoral and professional practice. You are invited to send written reflections to Katherine.Higgins@acpe.edu or send an email and we will arrange for conversation.
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We invite all ACPE Certified Educators who are working with Educator Candidates to join us for informal consultations. The next drop-in meeting will take place on December 6 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET. For 2022 the first meting will be on February 7, 2022 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm ET.
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W. S. Merwin invites the reader into now, into the only moment we have, which is the one before us. It is not about grand actions or profound thoughts. It is, at its core, all about presence: |
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A Momentary Creed
by W.S. Merwin
I believe in the ordinary day
that is here at this moment and is me
I do not see it going its own way
but I never saw how it came to me
it extends beyond whatever I may
think I know and all that is real to me
it is the present that it bears away
where has it gone when it has gone from me
there is no place I know outside today
except for the unknown all around me
the only presence that appears to stay
everything that I call mine it lent me
even the way that I believe the day
for as long as it is here and is me
— W.S. Merwin, from his Pulitzer-Prize winning book The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press, 2008)
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Kudos to Connie Bonner for sharing this week’s “Something Extra.” She writes, "In CPE and in chaplaincy care, the truth can pop out. This is a 20-minute talk by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) about his experience with the truth popping out. In CPE and as chaplains, sometimes we hear something like, “I didn’t think I would talk about this” or “I didn’t even know I was feeling this,” etc.” |
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This Week on the Calendar |
November 28 - December 6
Hanukkah starts at sundown (Judaism)
Hanukkah is a holiday that commemorates the Israelites’ divine and military victory over foreign powers, during which the sanctity of the Temple in Jerusalem was restored. It is celebrated with home rituals involving the lighting of a nine-branched candelabra called a menorah or chanukiyah.
November 28 - December 24
Advent (Christianity)
Advent is a season of spiritual preparation in observance of the birth of Jesus. In Western Christianity, it starts on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. In Eastern Christianity, the season is longer and begins in the middle of November.
December 8
Bodhi Day (Buddhism)
Also known as Rohatsu, commemorates the day that the Buddha, Siddharta Gautama, experienced enlightenment or spiritual awakening (bodhi). Celebrated on the eighth day either of December or the 12th month of the lunar calendar.
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Catholic Christianity)
Celebrates God’s preservation of Mary from original sin to prepare her to be the mother of Jesus
December 11
Feast Day Masá’il (Bahá’í)
The Baha’i calendar has nineteen months, all named after attributes of God. Masá’il is the Arabic word for questions. The word "feast" suggests that a large meal will be served, but that is not necessary for a Bahá'í Feast. The use of the term "feast," in this case, means that the community should enjoy a "spiritual feast" of worship, fellowship and unity.
December 12
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Christianity)
Celebrates the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary (by her title, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Patroness of Mexico and the Americas) before Juan Diego, an indigenous convert to Roman Catholicism, on the Mexican hill of Tepeyac in 1531.
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This Week in our Thoughts
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The VA St Louis Health Care System is currently recruiting for an ACPE Certified Educator.
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St. Luke's Hospital CPE Residency 2022-2023
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Other Educational Opportunities |
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ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education |
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ACPE is the standard for spiritual care and education. Our diverse membership includes Certified CPE Educators, Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapists, Spiritual Care Professionals and Practitioners, Pastoral Counselors, Chaplains, Faith Communities, and Seminaries. Our multi-disciplinary, multi-faith, multi-racial community of professionals provides education, connection, and formation through continuing education, networking, and leadership development.
ACPE is the premier, Department of Education recognized, organization that provides the highest quality CPE programs for spiritual care professionals of any faith and in any setting. We do this through a rigorous accreditation and certification process for centers and educators that provide CPE.
The depth of our training enables students to realize their full potential to strengthen the spiritual health of people in their care as well as themselves.
ACPE members are actively engaged in a wide variety of professional development activities including communities of practice, conferences, spiritual care research, and informal networking. We are more than just an association: we are a movement committed to the transformation of the human suffering.Our opportunities for formation and community enrich our member's work of healing and transforming people and communities in the US and across the globe.
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